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The composition / Antonio Skármeta ; pictures by Alfonso Ruano.
LIBRA PZ7.S6257 Co 2000
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Skármeta, Antonio, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Composición. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Dictatorship.
- Latin America--Fiction.
- Dictatorship--Juvenile fiction.
- Dictatorship--Fiction.
- Military government--Fiction.
- Schools--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Sophisticated picture books.
- Picture books.
- Physical Description:
- 34 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 22 x 24 cm
- Edition:
- First English-language edition.
- Distribution:
- Berkeley, CA : Distributed in the USA by Publishers Group West.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; Buffalo : Groundwood Books, 2000.
- Summary:
- When a government official comes into a third grade classroom and tells the students to write a composition entitled "What My Family Does at Night," Pedro must decide how he feels about the military dictatorship that is running his country.
- Notes:
- English translation by Elisa Amado.
- Américas Award, 2000.
- Jane Addams Children's Book Award, 2001
- ISBN:
- 0888993900
- 9780888993908
- 0888995504
- 9780888995506
- OCLC:
- 43280481
- Online:
- Publisher description
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